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Nature 454, 412-413 (24 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/454412a; Published online 23 July 2008
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China: The end of the science superpowers
J. Rogers Hollingsworth1, Karl H. Müller2 & Ellen Jane Hollingsworth3
- J. Rogers Hollingsworth is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), 455 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
Email: hollingsjr@aol.com - Karl H. Müller is director of the Vienna Institute for Social Science Documentation and Methodology (WISDOM), Maria Theresienstrasse 9/5, A-109 Vienna, Austria.
- Ellen Jane Hollingsworth is senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), 455 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
Abstract
Could the end of US world dominance over research mark the passing of national science giants, ask J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Karl H. Müller and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth.
From around 1735 until 1840 France led the world of science. This was the era of Antoine Lavoisier, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Claude Berthollet, with great advances in physics, mathematics, physiology and medicine.
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